More than 25% of world's Christians are charismatic or Pentecostal a Pentecostal historian said... there are close to 2 billion people [of] the Christian faith worldwide. He estimated that of that number, 540 mil. are charismatic or Pentecostal.

Christianity

world

1,943,037,952

32.77%

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-

1998

World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. Mahwah, NJ: PRIMEDIA Reference Inc. (1999). [Source: 1999 Encyc. Britannica Book of the Year]; pg. 695.

Table: "Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-1998 "; "Total Christians include those affiliated with churches not shown [Roman Catholic; Protestants; Orthodox; Anglicans], plus other persons professing in censuses or polls to be Christians but not affiliated with any church. "

"Christianity: In modern times there has been far greater co-operation between Jews and Christians, many Jews welcoming Jewish-Christian dialogues in which the aim of each side is to understand the position of the other, and even learn from it, without in any way moving from its own. Some Jews believe that Judaism and Christianity have so much in common that it is permissible to speak of a Jewish Christian tradition. But there is the strongest opposition on the part of all Jews, Orthodox, Conservative, & Reform, to the attempts by Christian missionary groups to convert Jews to Christianity. The Jews for Jesus movement is very much a fringe phenomenon and has justly been condemned by all faithful Jews as trying to introduce Christianity to Jews through the back door, so to speak. On the scholarly level, there have been Jewish investigations into the Jewish background of Christianity but in a purely objective way with the theological questions seen as irrelevant to scholarship. "

"Numerically, it is already clear, the future of Christianity lies with the youthful churches of Africa, the Hispanics of the Americas and -- who knows? -- the millions of stalwart Christians in China. "

"recently the 'World Christian Encyclopedia' projected religious numbers for the year 2000, and according to these estimates, there will be 2.1 billion Christians, down not even half a percentage on from the 34% of... a hundred years earlier. "

"While the world has 1.9 billion Christians, more than 1.1 billion people are Muslims... Since 1900, Earth's population has climbed from roughly 1.5 billion to more than 6 billion. Yet the percentage of Christians remains unchanged at 34 percent, experts say. "

Christianity

world

2,019,900,032

32.30%

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-

2000

Walls, Andrew. "Christianity " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984]; pg. 114.

"Figure 2.8: Statistics of Christian profession as a percentage of world population (after Barrett, 1982) " [Year 2000 figure is projected from circa 1982]

"Finally, nonbelievers in God [atheists, agnostics] as a group come in fourth place after Christianity (2 billion), Islam (1.2 billion), and Hinduism (900 million) in terms of global ranking of commonly-held belief systems. "

Christianity

world

-

27.00%

-

-

2010

*LINK* "Briefly... " in Hinduism Today International (June 1997); original source: Quadrant, the newsletter of the London-based Christian Research Association

Quadrant, the newsletter of the London-based Christian Research Association. World Christendom as a percentage of the population has decreased from 30% in 1960 to 28% in 1995 and is projected to decline to 27% by 2010, according to latest projections.

"For instance, there are 1.9 billion Christians in the world and slightly over one billion Muslims. Barrett estimates that in the year 2025 there will be over three billion Christians and 1.8 billion Muslims. "

"Palestinians: Location: Israel and the Occupied Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; worldwide; Population: 4.5 million "; Pg. 618: "There are more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the world, about 2 million of them in Israel and the Occupied Territories... " Pg. 619: "About 17% of Palestinians are Christians... "

"...achievement in the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire... By 1959 Catholics numbered about 36% of the population, and with Protestants added constituted a Christian portion that represented about half of the population. Native Congolese priests totaled about 400. "

"Since independence, with the state taking over the responsibility of primary education, the churches no longer have the same kind of direct influence they once had. It is estimated, however, that about half of the population considers itself to be Christian, the majority of them Roman Catholic. "

Table; This figure for Christian "includes affiliated and nominal Christians " [but then, I assume that's what the figure for total Christians always includes on this table. But there's an explicit footnote to this effect for this stat.]

"Location: Zambia; Population: 8 million "; "Some 72% of Zambia's population report that they are Christian or combine Christianity with traditional African religions. The remainder practice African beliefs, or are Hindu or Muslim. "

"About one-quarter of the people of Zimbabwe consider themselves Christians... However, many Christians also practice the traditional religions of their ancestors. They practice polygamy, for example, which is against the church's teachings but is part of their social fabric. "

"Traditional African forms of worship still command the loyalties of a large proportion of the Zimbabwe people. Of the world religions, Christianity is the most popular. The Roman Catholic Church has the largest number of adherents. Next in importance is the Anglican church. The major Protesetant groups are the Methodists and Congregationalists. Seventh-day Adventists and the Salvation Army have large followings. "

Table; This figure for Christian "includes affiliated and nominal Christians " [but then, I assume that's what the figure for total Christians always includes on this table. But there's an explicit footnote to this effect for this stat.]

Pg. 38: "24.5 million inhabitants of Sudan... "; Pg. 42: "Non-Muslims--who subscribe to traditional African or to Christian beliefs--mostly inhabit southern Sudan, and constitute no more than 10% of the nation's population. "

"And yet American had a particular kind of religiosity by the 1990s. There was a fierce independence; polls showed that for most Americans religious authority resided in the believer, rather than in the churchor the Bible. And there was a vast ignorance of the faith. Gallup referred to 'a nation of biblical illiterates' and presented solid evidence: fewer than half of all adults could name the four Gospels of the New Testament; only four in ten Americans knew that Jesus had delivered the Sermon on the Mount. This resulted in what has been called 'Consumer Christianity,' a religion based on selective teachings of the historic faith that ws highly permissive, self-centered, and indistinct. This modern, convenient religion posed few if any challenges to the public's way of life. "

Diamong, Sara. Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right. New York: The Guilford Press (1998); pg. 9.

"In a compilation of survey data on religion for his 1996 book... Barna found that smaller numbers of respondents go beyond simply viewing themselves as Christians. Forty-one percent say they are 'absolutely committed' to Christianity. "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Christianity - affiliated

Connecticut

1,890,000

60.80%

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1993

Krantz, Les & Jim McCormick. The Peoplepedia: The Ultimate Reference on the American People, Henry Holt and Company: New York (1996); pg. 188.

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

Table: "No. 87: Christian Church Adherents, 1990 "; "Christian church adherents were defined as 'all members, including full members, their children and the est. number of other regular participants who are not considered as communicant, confirmed or full members.' "

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